Star The Background on Backgrounds in Vista
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 29th Oct 2006 23:10 UTC
Windows "There has been a lot of attention in the last few weeks about the discrepancy in the desktop background appearance between the control panel and Windows Photo Gallery. This is something that we have been tracking internally for quite a while, so I thought I would clue in everyone on the issue here and how we are addressing it for RTM.
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n4cer
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2005-07-06

Microsoft has a lot bigger PR disaster on its hands than just the Register.

Whatever. There are other news orgs and actual users that don't have a problem. Many of the articles about the horrors of WGA/activation are pure speculation and mirror what was said about XP prior to its release, yet it is now the dominant client OS. Many of the virtualization stories were countered with clarifications shortly after they were published. Ed Bott has several non-alarmist articles on ZD.

Most shouting gloom and doom make up a minority of the customer base (some don't even use Windows, or at least claim not to do so), shout doom and gloom with each release, then move on to something else after launch. It's a cycle that repeats with every release. This pretty much sums it up:
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061017/dont-need-windows/

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dylansmrjones Member since:
2005-10-02

Of course XP is the dominant Client OS (what else, considering the weakness of controlling the market mechanisms). But that doesn't change the fact that many users are sick and tired of the MS EULA and WGA.

The WGA is even illegal in certain european countries.

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